Re: Are you 'breaking the rules' by growing fruit or vegetables in your flower beds?

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 Puckdropper <puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:

> "Laura from MomsRetro.com" <laurabiz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in 
> news:1ab63ed7-aa85-4938-a873-f613c7443db7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Who has a few veggies tucked in their flower beds?  My mom always
> > sneaks a container with a tomato plant into her side yard.  She grows
> > a bush variety so it doesn't take up too much space.  It gets watered
> > by the sprinklers automatically so she doesn't have to worry about it.
> > 
> > I've got a pepper growing in a side plot too.  You don't notice it's a
> > veggie until the peppers start turning colors.  I've also got culinary
> > sage growing, it has beautiful blue flowers in the spring too.
> > 
> > Who else is 'breaking the rules'?  What are you growing?
> > 
> 
> I've thought about putting some onion in my mother's flower bed (more
for 
> bug and pest control than anything else), but I've got my own garden to 
> tend.  I did plant marigolds in my "edible" garden, though.  They seemed

> to have lots of positive things they did for the garden with very little

> negative.
> 
> Breaking the rules?  I guess, if you believe in pure flower and
vegetable 
> gardens.  Gardeners for years have planted flowers as companions to 
> vegetables.
> 
> We might still plant onion in the flower garden, if we start getting too

> many pests...
> 
> Puckdropper

A mix of garlic and marigolds actually seems to work pretty well.
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